A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology

This hefty, immaculate volume inaugurates the innovative series of Blackwell Companions to Anthropology, and does so with academic panache.

These companions offer comprehensive synthesis of the traditional sub‐disciplines, primary subjects, and geographic areas of inquiry in the broad field of anthropology. Taken together, they are a contemporary survey of anthropology and also a guide to emerging research and intellectual trends in that field. Further volumes will cover political anthropology, psychological anthropology, the anthropology of Japan, and the anthropology of American Indians. Linguistic anthropology focuses on the interface between linguistic forms and the cultural practices that they help constitute. The...